| Show buller said to be engaged in a hard fight for Us rd coped to all newt sauth africa boers surrounded russia is preparing to move against graat britain while the boer war is on london feb 5 A special dispatch aiom durban natal sated today says there is no definite news from gen baller but it la reported there was heavy fighting yesterday st petersburg feb 5 the campaign in favor of taking advantage of the present complications in south africa to secure russian ports on the indian ocean and mediterranean is being pushed with vigor the newspapers openly advocate profiting by great britaina Brit ains difficulties to realize tho schemes upon which depends the ultimate prosperity of russia and which great britain has already frustrated capetown feb 5 A dispatch from says there is great ac here and on the arensberg han 01 er road due to the dispatch of an overwhelming force of infantry to seize font the cavalry having completed the is being retired to recoup losses the boers at colenberg Co lesberg aio virtually surrounded london feb 5 the correspondent f the associated press learned from in official source that absolutely no has been received by the var of the report that governor caller has re crossed the tugela river aej Is marching on on the according to the information 0 the war office at the present moment there Is every indication that things tro quiet at the front and that no im nc datte movement is anticipated regarding the dispatches from lady saying that bullers guns have leen l een heard there it ia surmised that some practice may have been going on with the new balt erics which have just reached tho front the war office statement that it has received no confirmation of the report that the forces of cullor have re crossed the tugela has filled to shake public belief that operations of tremendous importance are proceeding at the tugela and it is thought that either the denial was prompted by a to keep the alli try movements as secret as possible until something has been accomplished or that general buller is keeping the home office in the dark pending results it Is obviously extremely biffl aalt to extract much from the conflicting statements regarding general bullers movements but most of the commentators agree that tho gist of the items tends to confirm the belief that of importance aro in progress it is true that the correspondent at general bullers headquarters the impression that his main force is still south of the tugela but it is easily conceivable that tho dispatches arc so censored as to convey a false impression probably though dated saturday and sunday the dispatches were in reality written to hie movements reported to have com lanced friday this has already happened on various dispatches being detained by the censor and re dated when actually released whatever may be the situation there seems to be no doubt that general bullers preparations for a fresh attempt to relieve ladysmith j were completed thursday or friday and though the start was possibly deterred from tho date first selected it will not be long before it is definitely that gen bullers forces are again fighting their way towards lady however who expect agn buller to reach the beleaguered beleaguer ed U night seem to have forgotten the presence of the boors the best in people while sanguine fully realize that a british victory can only he achieved at a heavy cost |
